The rogue hacktivist displace Anonymous is manifestly breaking out the Low Orbit Ion Cannon in i lawsuit again for a reprise of the Operation Payback campaign, this fourth dimension setting their distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault sites on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The drive to disrupt the RIAA website is reminiscent of Anonymous' before missions to protestation actions taken yesteryear anti-piracy interests seeking to enforce copyright infringement sanctions.
The RIAA is seeking trillions of dollars inward damages from the P2P file-sharing network LimeWire for facilitating copyright infractions.
Federal Judge Kimba Wood has already indicated she believes that the logic behind the RIAA calculations of the damages sought inward the representative is flawed, according to Computerworld.
"If Plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory harm theory based on the release of straightaway infringers per work, Defendants' damages could achieve into the trillions," Judge Wood wrote.
Nonetheless, Anonymous has decided to retaliate yesteryear coordinating a DDoS assault against the RIAA. The next proclamation was posted on AnonNews.org:
The Examiner reports that the next messages were posted yesteryear supporters of Anonymous coordinating the attack:
Message establish on AnonOPs IRC:
[#OperationPayback] THE POLL IS CLOSED. THE CURRENT TARGET IS RIAA. SET TO KICK OFF AT 16:00 PACIFIC TIME. PLEASE JOIN #RECRUIT TO HELP GET THIS RAID OFF THE GROUND.
Sample of Twitter stream:
Anonymous are attacking #RIAA for suing #LimeWire for 75$ trillion. Join us: http://bit.ly/i5TD77 Expect us #anonymous #opPayback #LOIC
TARGET: riaa.org - Hive: loic.anonops.in #loic - #anonymous #riaa #payback #oppayback
Most recently, Anonymous is known for having breached the systems of HBGary Federal - a safety fellowship who was involved inward efforts to bring out the identities of the Anonymous leadership - as well as for defacing the website of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.
Anonymous had previously targeted the websites of PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, PostFinance Bank, Amazon, Bank of America as well as others who had halted trouble concern relations amongst WikiLeaks, every bit good every bit also launching attacks against the websites of Senator Joe Lieberman as well as Sarah Palin for speaking out against the WikiLeaks information dumps.
Anonymous employs a downloadable tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon that is made available to those who desire to participate inward a DDoS attack.
The success of an assault largely depends on the performance organizer's mightiness to publicize as well as gain crowd-sourced participation for the assault "hive". Operations that neglect to attract plenty participants neglect to induce got the targeted website off-line.
The drive to disrupt the RIAA website is reminiscent of Anonymous' before missions to protestation actions taken yesteryear anti-piracy interests seeking to enforce copyright infringement sanctions.
The RIAA is seeking trillions of dollars inward damages from the P2P file-sharing network LimeWire for facilitating copyright infractions.
Federal Judge Kimba Wood has already indicated she believes that the logic behind the RIAA calculations of the damages sought inward the representative is flawed, according to Computerworld.
"If Plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory harm theory based on the release of straightaway infringers per work, Defendants' damages could achieve into the trillions," Judge Wood wrote.
Nonetheless, Anonymous has decided to retaliate yesteryear coordinating a DDoS assault against the RIAA. The next proclamation was posted on AnonNews.org:
The Examiner reports that the next messages were posted yesteryear supporters of Anonymous coordinating the attack:
Message establish on AnonOPs IRC:
[#OperationPayback] THE POLL IS CLOSED. THE CURRENT TARGET IS RIAA. SET TO KICK OFF AT 16:00 PACIFIC TIME. PLEASE JOIN #RECRUIT TO HELP GET THIS RAID OFF THE GROUND.
Sample of Twitter stream:
Anonymous are attacking #RIAA for suing #LimeWire for 75$ trillion. Join us: http://bit.ly/i5TD77 Expect us #anonymous #opPayback #LOIC
TARGET: riaa.org - Hive: loic.anonops.in #loic - #anonymous #riaa #payback #oppayback
Most recently, Anonymous is known for having breached the systems of HBGary Federal - a safety fellowship who was involved inward efforts to bring out the identities of the Anonymous leadership - as well as for defacing the website of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.
Anonymous had previously targeted the websites of PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, PostFinance Bank, Amazon, Bank of America as well as others who had halted trouble concern relations amongst WikiLeaks, every bit good every bit also launching attacks against the websites of Senator Joe Lieberman as well as Sarah Palin for speaking out against the WikiLeaks information dumps.
Anonymous employs a downloadable tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon that is made available to those who desire to participate inward a DDoS attack.
The success of an assault largely depends on the performance organizer's mightiness to publicize as well as gain crowd-sourced participation for the assault "hive". Operations that neglect to attract plenty participants neglect to induce got the targeted website off-line.
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